Word: 101st
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Battleground (MGM) is a story about the Battle of the Bulge. Filmed with a sentimental, Mauldin-type humor and some standard war movie heroics, it concentrates on one squad of the 101st Airborne Division, which was enveloped near Bastogne by the surprise Nazi breakthrough of December 1944. The eight-day defense of Bastogne is gallantly manned by several of MGM's regulars (Van Johnson, John Hodiak, George Murphy, Ricardo Montalban), who were toughened up before the filming by two weeks' basic training, but who still look too full-faced for their battle-weary roles...
...week, after nine years of military service, Howley (now a brigadier general) resigned to go home to his advertising business. To succeed Reservist Howley as commander in Berlin, U.S. High Commissioner John J. McCloy got a topflight U.S. professional-Major General Maxwell D. Taylor, wartime commander of the famed 101st Airborne Division, later Superintendent of West Point, more recently Chief of Staff of U.S. forces in Europe. Taylor's most spectacular wartime exploit came in 1943 when-he slipped through the German lines wearing his U.S. uniform, and under the Nazis' noses made his way to Rome...
Hasty Pudding's 101st annual theatrical, "Tomorrow is Manana," went through a final test run last night before an audience of Pudding alumni and opens officially at 8:30 p.m. tonight...
Forecast. In Manhattan, newsmen who had tramped through a sleet-and-rain-storm to cover the 101st national meeting of the American Meteorological Society reported that most of the 200-odd delegates had come without galoshes or raincoats...
...Airborne Command; of a heart ailment; in Dunn, N.C. A non-West Pointer who stuck to the Army after World War I, Paratrooper Lee spent much of the '30s as a military observer in Europe, organized the Army's first experimental paratroop units in 1940, commanded the 101st Airborne Division till a heart ailment retired him to a desk job just before...